Broken Wards (again <.>)

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Originally Posted by Jennestia

That would take a lot more work to do than just optimizing the ward system.

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No... I don't think so.

Put a 72hr time limit on retainers and call it good! :P

They don't need a ward reset.

What they need is to completely kill off the idea of housing retainers in a physical location (at least in a capital city). Trying to cram an entire server population's retainers into a few areas results in nothing but issues for both the servers and the players.

I propose retainers to not be actually physically housed when you place them in a capital city (and put in place a means to directly purchase an item from the item search list), and also allow for a non-absurd amount of retainers to be placed at aetheryte camps for a set amount of time (limited to one retainer per account at a given camp).

people seem to forget the main reason for the over crowding...... it is not SEs fault that players dont want to place their retainers in other cities. SE has made comments about that though and already said they are finding ways to fix it.

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Originally Posted by Kailea_Nagisa

people seem to forget the main reason for the over crowding...... it is not SEs fault that players dont want to place their retainers in other cities. SE has made comments about that though and already said they are finding ways to fix it.

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I still doubt this method is going to work if the servers ever get more than 2000 players (which is considered low for any MMO), regardless of how many tweaks they give it. Imagine that with 2000 players, they're going to need to support at a minimum 4000 retainers.

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Originally Posted by Wolfie

I still doubt this method is going to work if the servers ever get more than 2000 players (which is considered low for any MMO), regardless of how many tweaks they give it. Imagine that with 2000 players, they're going to need to support at a minimum 4000 retainers.

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well yeah it still needs work, the "spreading" idea wont fix it alone. But it is one of the main factors, at the moment anyway.

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Originally Posted by Kailea_Nagisa

well yeah it still needs work, the "spreading" idea wont fix it alone. But it is one of the main factors, at the moment anyway.

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You know the only "fix" is to just toss more hardware at it, right? Which isn't really feasible or wise.

Just make it an AH please enough devtime has already been wasted on this disaster that keeps this game from having a stable economy.

BRING IT TO THE STREEEEETS.

I mean, really, why not create a true, bustling market system insteaf of this pathetic imitation that is rampant with flaws. Just let people put up stands in the streets or build shops and villages or something.

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Originally Posted by giftforce

BRING IT TO THE STREEEEETS.

I mean, really, why not create a true, bustling market system insteaf of this pathetic imitation that is rampant with flaws. Just let people put up stands in the streets or build shops and villages or something.

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that idea has been shot down 50+ times already...... yes lets take a lag problem that is isolated in one zone, and move it into the city where even more people are running and doing things... yeah that's a great idea. *rolls eyes*